New catalog compiles more than 100 'spider' pulsars that consume stellar partners

Manuel Linares is a physicist at NTNU who studies binary stars called "spider pulsars." The stars got this name because they ...
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Binary Black Holes Can Tell Us A Lot About The Universe. But First, We Have To Find Them

Every galaxy has a supermassive black hole at its center, much like every egg has a yolk. But sometimes, hens lay eggs with two yolks. In a similar way, astrophysicists like us who study supermassive ...

New instrument at SOAR achieves first light with observations of remarkable binary star system

The SOAR Telescope, located on Cerro Pachón in Chile, has received a major upgrade with the installation of the SOAR ...

Astronomers determine new origins of double-peaked emission lines in galactic centers

A research team from the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has uncovered the origins of double-peaked narrow emission-line characteristics in galactic centers ...
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A 'mysterious giant' behind binary black holes? Astronomers uncover first evidence of a third compact object

The binary black holes in the universe are already astonishing enough, but researchers from the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have made a groundbreaking ...